The company is again praising its search engine and rolls out interesting stats

Dec 18, 2013 00:06 GMT  ·  By

Microsoft still invests a fortune in Bing to make it successful and steal some users from long-time rival Google and support its transition to devices and services.

A blog post published today puts the emphasis on Bing’s achievements this year, as many of the features of this search engine have been improved throughout the year.

Microsoft claims that “if everyone that sees the Bing Home page image each month were to hold hands, they could form a human chain stretching around the circumference of the Earth,” while search activity on Bing Video more than doubled in 2013.

At the same time, the company reveals that “it would take 150 years to watch the 800,000 films indexed by Bing,” while the search engine “indexes a half a billion tweets from Twitter and over 2 billion status updates from Facebook every single day.”

And in case you were wondering, “if you were to line up pixels from all of the aerial imagery that make up Bing Maps, you could make four round trips to Venus with pixels to spare.”